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elongate, apically strongly incurved fingers, tapering uniformly to the 

 middle so as to be there less tban half as broad as at base, then slightly 

 enlarging to form an apical rounded lobe a little more than half as 

 broad as the base, expanding below more than above, the apical mar- 

 gin rounded but sometimes feebly emarginate so as to appear faintly 

 bifid; subgenital plate rather small and very narrow, narrowing api- 

 cally, the apical margin well rounded, faintly and broadly tuberculate. 



Length of body, male, 19.5 mm.; antennae, 9.5 mm.; tegmina, 4.25 

 mm.; hind femora, 11 mm. 



Three males. Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina, Novem- 

 ber 22, Maynard. 



This can not be the Pezotettix longicornwfat' Saussure, described from 

 Carolina, from its lack of distinct lateral carfuae and its convex pronotal 

 disk. 



72. MELANOPLUS AMPLECTENS, new species. 



(PI ate XVII, fig. 7.) 



A little above medium size, luteo-testaceous. Head aT little promi- 

 nent, luteo testaceous, above very broadly and feebly striped with fus- 

 cous, with a broad, piceous, postocular band; vertex somewhat tumid, 

 somewhat elevated above the pronotum, the interspace between the 

 eyes about half as broad again as the first antenna! joint; fastigium 

 steeply declivent, angularly sulcate throughout; frontal costa fading- 

 just before the clypeus, subequal, slightly broader than the interspace 

 between the eyes, feebly sulcate at and below the ocellus, sparsely and 

 finely punctate throughout; eyes large, very prominent, considerably 

 longer than the infraocular portion of the genae; antennae luteous, a 

 little infuscated apically, fully five-sixths as long as the hind femora. 

 Pronotum subequal, the sides of the prozona with a broad fuscous 

 postocular band, the disk broadly convex, passing by an abrupt 

 rounded shoulder into the anteriorly feebly tumid, vertical, lateral 

 lobes; median carina distinct and sharp on the metazona, feeble but 

 tolerably sharp and equal on the prozoua; front margin faintly convex 

 and faintly and narrowly emarginate, narrowly flaring feebly, hind 

 margin broadly obtusangulate; prozona distinctly longitudinal, more 

 than halt' as long again as the sharply but not very closely punctate 

 metazona. Prosternal spine rather long, conical, a little retrorse, the 

 hinder face straight ; interspace between mesosternal lobes nearly 

 half as long again as broad. Tegmina abbreviate, but reaching nearly 

 to the middle of the hind femora, slender lanceolate, the tip very 

 bluntly subacuminate, brownish fuscous deepening above to blackish 

 on the lateral face, cinereous on the dorsal face. Fore and middle 

 femora somewhat tumid in the male; hind femora luteo-testaceous, 

 broadly and almost completely bifasciate with blackish fuscous, which 

 is angularly disposed on the outer face, the whole geniculation blackish 

 fuscous, the inferior face luteous; hind tibiae luteo-flavous, infuscated 

 at base, the spines black almost or quite to their very base, twelve to 



